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chap. Tin. SATISFACTORY INTERCOURSE WITH GRIQUAS. 217 encourage them with regard to the future. Their country is fertile, their grazing-ground good, and it is said that they possess eight or ten thousand horses, besides other stock. They bid fair to be a prosperous people, could they but feel security, and it is to be hoped that the recent proceedings in connection with the Orange Eiver territory, of which they so loudly complain, will be reviewed, and thus the evils they so justly fear be averted, and the wrong they have suffered be re dressed. Owing to the discouragement so naturally felt, their settlement was not in such good order as it might otherwise have been; but several persons were building good houses, and they seemed very much in earnest in their endeavours to secure the best possible means of future improvement and safety. One of these measures was the thorough education of their children; and, in order to effect this, they sent a waggon and two team, or twenty-four oxen, to Cape Town, to bring down a well-qualified schoolmaster and his family to reside amongst them, guaranteeing him the means of com fortable support. The public religious services on the Sabbath day were well attended here. Upwards of a hundred waggons, bring ing families from a distance of five, ten, or even twenty miles, arrived on the Saturday evening, and on the follow ing morning the church, capable of holding about 700 persons, was filled, while many remained outside. The ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was afterwards administered, and in the afternoon Mr. Edwards, who had arrived on the previous evening from an adjacent station, preached to a considerable number of Betchuanas in their own language. The religious proceedings of the day included the baptism of two Gfriquas, and, on the following morning, a young couple were publicly married, receiving, as they retired, the con gratulations of a number of their friends, including some of the chief people of the place. We closed the religious en-